Difficulties loading bind filles, please help

I'm trying to setup a series of sayings for my build up key, but I keep running into the "unable to read in keybind file".

My initial bind is:

/bind 5 "powexec_slot 5$$You opened what?!$$bind_load_file buildup1.txt

In the text file buildup1.txt, I have:
5 "powexec_slot 5$$local BSOD time!$$bind_load_file buildup2.txt"

I'd greatly appreciate any help.

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I'm trying to setup a series of sayings for my build up key, but I keep running into the "unable to read in keybind file".

My initial bind is:

/bind 5 "powexec_slot 5$$You opened what?!$$bind_load_file buildup1.txt

In the text file buildup1.txt, I have:
5 "powexec_slot 5$$local BSOD time!$$bind_load_file buildup2.txt"

I'd greatly appreciate any help.

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You'll need to provide a complete path to the keybind file. So if the keybind file is in c:\coh\, you need to write out bindloadfile c:\coh\buildup1.txt, etc. Spaces in the folder names will mess with you, so you may want to either make a coh folder in the root directory of your c: drive, or figure out the DOS format of the folder names. I suggest you use a coh folder for ease of use.

Also note, _ underscores are not necessary in bind commands, so if you run out of room on a bind, you can easily get rid of them.

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hmm, can't get it to work yet...added in the path name to the text file, so it looks like this in buildup1.txt:

5 "powexec_slot 5$$local BSOD time!$$bindloadfile e:\keys\buildup2.txt"

note the bind I use in game is /bind 5 "powexec_slot 5$$local you opened what?!$$e:\keys\buildup1.txt"

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I'm fairly certain the E:\keys part is your problem. All of your bind files should be in the City of Heroes\piggs\ directory. That's where the game looks for the bind files and trying to make it look elsewhere may be causing your problem. Since everything else looks good, I suspect you're going to need to move your text files. The bind would then be simply:

/bind 5 "powexec_slot 5$$local you opened what?!$$bind_load_file buildup1.txt"

And in the file buildup1.txt it would be:
5 "powexec_slot 5$$local BSOD time!$$bindloadfile buildup2.txt"

If you must make the source of the bind files something other than your City of Heroes/piggs/ directory, then you'll have to work out what you're doing wrong in the path commands you're giving. Good luck, either way.

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note the bind I use in game is /bind 5 "powexec_slot 5$$local you opened what?!$$e:\keys\buildup1.txt"

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Forgot the bindloadfile.
Here's what I would do:
Ingame type /bindloadfile e:\keys\buildup1.txt
Make sure the txt files look like this.

buildup1.txt
<font class="small">Code:[/color]<hr /><pre>5 "powexecslot 5$$local BSOD time!$$bindloadfile e:\keys\buildup2.txt"</pre><hr />

buildup2.txt
<font class="small">Code:[/color]<hr /><pre>5 "powexecslot 5$$local you opened what?!$$bindloadfile e:\keys\buildup1.txt"</pre><hr />

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I'm fairly certain the E:\keys part is your problem. All of your bind files should be in the City of Heroes\piggs\ directory. That's where the game looks for the bind files and trying to make it look elsewhere may be causing your problem. Since everything else looks good, I suspect you're going to need to move your text files. The bind would then be simply:

/bind 5 "powexec_slot 5$$local you opened what?!$$bind_load_file buildup1.txt"

And in the file buildup1.txt it would be:
5 "powexec_slot 5$$local BSOD time!$$bindloadfile buildup2.txt"

If you must make the source of the bind files something other than your City of Heroes/piggs/ directory, then you'll have to work out what you're doing wrong in the path commands you're giving. Good luck, either way.

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First, that was a poor assumption. Second, that is some REALLY useful information. I'll be sure to add it to the /bindloadfile article on ParagonWiki.

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hmm I tried both methods with still no success;/

even just doing the /bindloadfile e:\keys\buildup1.txt
(and /bindloadfile buildup1.txt with the text copied to the \piggs dir) gives me the error.

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I think I see the problem, just looked in cmd to see what it was seeing...the files were .txt.txt...no wonder it wasn't working;/

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HAHA! Classic. Done that several times on new installs. I almost always tell windows to show all extensions. And when I forget, BAM, this happens.

Open a folder, Tools, Folder Options, View, Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"

happy binding.

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done, hehehe thanks for the help

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also .. you can create a directory in your coh directory and use ..

c:\program files\city of heroes\kb

bindloadfile .\kb\file.txt

by default it looks in ".\piggs" but you can change this for neatness sake.

I actually use ".\kb\file.txt" for most binds and ".\random\random.txt" for random targeting phrase generation.

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